Finally I remembered to get and post the name of the foot anomaly seen here in Timor in two of our pediatric patients.
MACRODYSTROPHIC LIPOMATOSIS: or focal giantism.
Dr. Provenchar, the orthopedic surgeon, said that only 20 cases are reported around the world at this time....and we just found two more in the same village on one tiny island. (Don't quote me on the statistic...I haven't looked it up to verify that it is accurate. In any case, it is rare.)
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